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(Online Course) CSAT Paper - II : Basic Numeracy: Fractions (MCQ - 2) Posted: 16 Aug 2012 05:07 AM PDT Questions: 5 Attempts allowed: Unlimited Available: Always Pass rate: 75 % Backwards navigation: Allowed  To get details about Study Kit for IAS Pre (CSAT) Paper 2 Start quiz read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

(Online Course) CSAT Paper - II : Basic Numeracy: Fractions Posted: 16 Aug 2012 04:48 AM PDT Basic Numeracy Number System A fraction is a part of the whole (object, thing, region). It forms the part of basic aptitude of a person to have and idea of the parts of a population, group or territory. Civil servants must have a feel of 'fractional' thinking. eg, 5/12 , here '12' is the number of equal part into which the whole has been divided, is called denominator and '5' is the number of equal parts which have been taken out, is called numerator. Example1: Name the numerator of 3/7 and denominator of 5/13. Solution: Numerator of 3/7 is 3.                 Denominator of 5/13 is 13. Lowest Term of a Fraction: Dividing the numerator and denominator by the highest common element (or number) in them, we get the fraction in its lowest form. eg, To find the fraction 6/14 in lowest form Since '2' is highest common element in numerator 6 and denominator 14 so dividing them by 2, we get 3/7 Which is the lowest form of 6/14. Equivalent Fractions: If numerator and denominator of any fraction are multiplied by the same number then all resulting fractions are called equivalent fractions. eg, 1/2, 2/4, 3/6, 4/8 all are equivalent fractions but 1/2 is the lowest form. Example 2: Find the equivalent fractions of 2/5 having numerator 6. Solution: We know that 2 × 3 = 6. This means we need to multiply both the numerator and denominator by 3 to get the equivalent fraction. Hence, required equivalent fraction = 2/5 = 2 x 3/ 5 x 3 = 6/15 Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Here two cases arise as denominators of the fraction are same or not. Case I: When denominators of the two fractions are same then we write denominator once and add (or subtract) the numerators. eg,  2/7 + 3/7 = 5/7 Case II: If denominators are different, we need to find a common denominator that both denominators will divide into. eg,                     1/6 + 3/8 We can write,     1/6 = 2/12, 3/18 = 4/24                            3/8 = 6/16 = 9/24                            1/6 + 3/8 = 4/24 + 9/24 = 13/24 read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

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(Online Course) GS Concepts : Indian Economy - Basic Concepts of Economy Posted: 16 Aug 2012 03:07 AM PDT Subject : Economy Chapter : Indian Economy Topic: Basic Concepts of Economy Q. What are the definitions of economics? Answer. Economics as a word comes from the Greek: oikos means 'family, household, or estate', and nomos stands for 'custom, law' etc. Thus, "household management" or manage-ment of scarce resources is the essential meaning of economics. Economics encom-passes production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services. Economic logic is applied to any problem that involves choice under scarcity. Q. Evolution of the subject. Answer : Initially, economics focused on "wealth" and later "welfare". Still later, in recent years, it has given sufficient attention to the study of trade offs- giving up one to gain another. The focus on tradeoffs arises from the traditional assumption that resources are scarce and that it is necessary to choose between competing alternatives. Choosing one benefit implies forgoing another alternative the opportunity cost (cost of foregoing an Opportunity). Q. Who is known as the father of Economics? Answer :Adam Smith, generally regarded as the Father of Economics, author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (generally known as The Wealth of Nations) defines economics as "The science of wealth." Smith offered another definition, "The Science relating to the laws of production, distribution and exchange." Definitions in terms of wealth emphasize production and consumption, and do not deal with the economic activities of those not significantly involved in these two processes, for example, children and old people. The belief is that non-productive activity is a cost on society. It meant that man was relegated to the secondary position and wealth was placed above life. Thus arose the shift in the focus to welfare economics study of man and of human welfare, not of money alone. Economics involves social action connected with the attainment of human well being. Q. Discuss the different branches of economics. Answer : Economics is usually divided into two main branches: Microeconomics which examines the economic behavior of individual actors such as consumers, businesses households etc to understand how decisions are made in the face of scarcity and what effects they have. Macroeconomics, which studies the economy as a whole and its features like national income, employment ,poverty, balance of payments and inflation. The two are linked closely as the behavoir or a firm or consumer or household depends upon the state of the national and global economy. Q. What is Keynesian theory of macro economics? Answer : Dear Candidate, This Material is from General Studies Mains Study Kit for Civil Services Main Examinations. For Details Click Here read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

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(Online Course) Pub Ad for IAS Mains: Chapter: 8 Development Dynamics - Impact of Globalisation over Public Administration (Paper -1) Posted: 16 Aug 2012 01:37 AM PDT Paper - 1 Chapter: 8 (Development Dynamics) Impact of Globalization on Public Administration Case of rolling back of state, animalization of state shrinking of state. It is rendering the Public Administration as irrelevant Public Administration as discipline becoming more and more irrelevant. Role of state is going to be redefined. Importance of state is going to continue. Increasing loss of Public Space (Domain where every body has a say, people can involve in dialogue). Everything is being super imposed over the people without, they having any say monologic approach instead of dialogic. Top down approach instead of bottom up. Public Administration has to promote participative, dialogic and inclusive approach. Increasing shift from Administration state towards coercive state from Civil Administrative to non-civil administration. Huge mobilization taking place in the form of resistance basically in continental Europe. State is increasing coercive side of its role. State is increasingly becoming militarized violent to counter this resistance. Resistance movements are violent. So, to counter this state is becoming more violent. Led to a rethinking in Public Administration about the legitimacy of state. Public Administration has enlarged role to play to ensure that state is people oriented and not against the people. Dear Candidate, This Material is from Public Administration Study Kit for Civil Services Main Examinations. For Details Click Here read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

Today's Important News: 16 August 2012 Posted: 16 Aug 2012 01:14 AM PDT Today's Important News (16-08-2012) The Hindu National: Manmohan blames slow growth on lack of political consensus We are not scared of accountability laws, says CJI After rumours, northeast people flee Bangalore Bodoland Muslims might turn 'militant', warns minorities panel NRHM to be expanded to towns also, says Manmohan read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

(Online Course) Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012: Yojana Magazine - Growth Trends in Services Sector Posted: 16 Aug 2012 12:58 AM PDT Yojana Magazine Growth Trends in Services Sector Q. Describe the trends of employment in the service Sector? Answer: While the structural change is interesting, the sect oral employment change that co-occurred is more interesting and slightly worrisome. Though the share of agriculture to GDP has come down drastically, it still remains the largest employer. The share of agriculture in total employment has come down from 68.6 percent in 1983 to 56.4 percent in 2004-05. Industry has shown a modest increase in the total employment from 13.8 percent to 18.8 percent in the same period, which is only plausible considering the increase in its share in the total GDP. However, the service sector, which Dear Candidate, This Material is from Our Study Kit of Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012 . These materials are extremely useful for GS Mains, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science and Economics. For Details Click Here 20% Discount for the Candidate who have qualified 2012 Preliminary Examination. read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

(Online Course) Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012: The Hindu - Don’t give up on Iran Oil Posted: 16 Aug 2012 12:50 AM PDT The Hindu  Don't give up on Iran Oil Q. Write a short notes on India's Logjam situation to Curtail Oil Imports from Iran. Answer: India finds itself in a rather difficult situation following the West's sanctions on Iran and the overt pressure being brought on it by the United States to curtail oil imports from the Gulf nation. Iran is India's second largest supplier of crude oil after Saudi Arabia and given the growing energy requirements of the country, it is not a viable option to close the tap on Iran, even if the West has done so. India should be guided in this issue solely by its own interests and not by sanctions that the U.S. and Europe may apply outside of the United Nations umbrella. Indeed, the pressure has been on for more than a year now on India. First, the payments for Iranian oil imports through banks based in the West were choked but India found a way out by routing money through a Turkish bank. Dear Candidate, This Material is from Our Study Kit of Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012 . These materials are extremely useful for GS Mains, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science and Economics. For Details Click Here 20% Discount for the Candidate who have qualified 2012 Preliminary Examination. read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

(Online Course) Essay Writing Skills Improvement Programme: Essays on Science - Science & Religion Posted: 16 Aug 2012 12:40 AM PDT Part D - Essays on Science - Tech, Environmental & Ecological issues Science & Religion Answer: Science deals with the world that we know the material world that is comprehended by the senses: religion is concerned with a supra-mundane world - a world that we cannot be said to know. Science believes in things that can be proved: religion is preoccupied with ideas that have to be accepted without proof. Science depends on reasons: religion on intuition. l' he scientist works in the laboratory of the material world: the religious teacher works within the recesses of his personal experiences. Religion begins where science ends. Science says that tile First Cause is unknowable. Religion says that it can be known through the discipline of religion, for it is God who is not only self-existent but self revealed. Hence, there is bound to be hostility between the man of science and the man of religion. Science ends when matter ends. But religion opposes to this finite world of matter, the God who is endless. According to common perception, a huge gulf exists between science and religion. Apparently, no doubt, science deals with things concrete, whereas religion is based upon abstract ideals. Science implies fact, religion involves faith. Religion is basically a matter of instinct and science that of reason. But these are the broad characteristics of science and religion which have meeting places also-and the first meeting place is in the human mind and nature themselves. It is the human mind which proves facts and starts believing in them and it is the mind alone which nurtures faith and reverence and believes in some higher entity. When one talks about two apparently divergent things like science and religion or other seemingly opposite things. one has to keep in mind the complexity of human nature. Its very complexity demands influences from antithetical ideas and makes their co-existence nec­essary as well as feasible. Science relies on experiment, whereas religion on experience. Any religious experience, be that of Christ or Ramakrishna, is personal and subjective and it cannot he tested by any experiment. One has to believe in it. On the other hand, the experiment of science is an impersonal venture. Also, objectivity as a temperament of the mind is needed in this pursuit. So rationality is one of the tools that science employs. Proof is provided in the form of tangible results which can he perceived with the eye and at times can be sensed. Religion is subjective as religious enlightenment has to be felt by one's own experience. Unless and until religious experience is felt by an individual himself, he cannot reap any pleasure out of it. The moral and religious rules are allied and have to be followed by individuals in appropriate ethical situations. Science, on the other hand, deals with the objective side of life. Scientific discoveries are common property. They are experience felt by all and sundry. They are open to common men and not shrouded in mystery or haziness. They are truths, universally true and subject to scientific calculations. A systematic scholarship and concentration is needed to get at scientific truths which are subsequently tested and approved by hypotheses and experiment. But so long as scientific knowledge is imperfect, the place of religion and God will continue to be highly relevant. So long as scientific theories do not reach perfection, humans have to fall back upon their own reasoning and secondary -'powers of their own soul and spirit. In this sense, science and religion actually converge. Both scientists and saints have to undertake solitary travels Into the regions unknown and to depend on themselves only and nobody else. But once a line is drawn between them, their ways bifurcate and take separate routes. Religious truths remain essentialty the property of the individuals who experience and realise them through their own inward soul and mind and not through the external manifestation of things which have a physical behaviour. Scientific truths, on the other hand, become the property of the whole world and go to inflate the store-house of human knowledge. To use a term from the world of music one can say that in the initial stages of human civilisation human knowledge was of the "mono" type, i.e., undifferentiated. The sort of complexity which has crept into the human world in modern times was lacking. Religion had scientific connotations also. During the Rigvedic period the worship­ping of gods and goddesses and the subsequent beginning of many religious customs and practices were inextricably woven with scientific purposes. For example, the common practice of offering jai (water) to the sun-god during sunrise. It is a fact that the first rays of the sun are beneficial to the eyes. The practice of fasting prescribed by religion as a mark of abstinence was also derived from the fact that it cultivates patience and will-power (besides being good for physical well-being). Similarly the custom of hawan during a puja or a Vagya had its origins in the fact that it purifies the atmosphere. But gradually during the later Vedic period with the increased influence of the priests and their tendency to misuse religion for their own mercenary considerations the scientific part of these practices got suppressed by superstitions and nameless fears. Dear Candidate, This Material is from Essay Study Kit for Civil Services Main Examinations. 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Today's Important News: 15 August 2012 Posted: 16 Aug 2012 12:29 AM PDT Today's Important News (15-08-2012) The Hindu National: When protest becomes endemic, we're flirting with chaos: Pranab Vilasrao Deshmukh passes away Now Mamata turns her ire on judiciary Gurudas Dasgupta slams CBI for shoddy 2G probe, seeks Chidambaram as witness  Presidential Reference 'a bid to skirt inconvenient verdict' Whistleblower Bill moved in RS Plan to save the Ganga going down the drain read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

(Online Course) History for IAS Mains: The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century - Influence of Islam on Indian Culture Posted: 16 Aug 2012 12:27 AM PDT The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century – Society and Culture Influence of Islam on Indian Culture Unlike that of earlier invading tribes, the culture of Islam was quite distinct. The real culture of Islam was represented by the Muslim empires of Baghdad, Cairo and Cordova. The careers of this culture to India were the Turks and the Afghans who hardly represent the culture of Islam. Nevertheless, the cultural influence between Islam, and Indian traditions were mutual and this is clearly borne by several institutions and particularly by the Bhakti movement, which had its genesis in the early Bhagvatism and Vaishnavism. Dear Candidate, This Material is from History Mains Study Kit for Civil Services Main Examinations. For Details Click Here read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 14 August 2012 Posted: 15 Aug 2012 11:47 PM PDT Questions: 4 Attempts allowed: Unlimited Available: Always Pass rate: 50 % Backwards navigation: Allowed These MCQ's Are Based On "THE HINDU" 14 August 2012 Start quiz read more © 2012 www.upscportal.com Study Kits for IAS Mains 2012. Books for Civil Services Examinations Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online.

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